“Suitcase Killer” Heather Mack is among a group of women claiming to have been sexually abused by a former corrections officer at Chicago’s Metropolitan Corrections Center, The Post can reveal.
Brittany Hall, 31, was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 6 — charged with sexually abusing four inmates while she was the guard in charge of supervising the MCC’s Unit 12.
Hall, who resigned from the US Bureau of Prisons last year, has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry a maximum sentence of more than 80 years.
Hall worked at MCC while Mack — who is serving 26 years for conspiring to kill her socialite mother at a luxe Indonesian resort in 2014 — was detained there between November 2021 and September 2024. Mack has since been transferred to a correctional institute in West Virginia.
Sources confirmed to The Post that Brittany Hall was present at Mack’s January 2024 sentencing in Chicago’s Dirksen US Court, and this reporter also saw Hall in the courtroom.
Text messages viewed by The Post show Mack and Hall corresponded via a third party both before and after the sentencing, and made clear Mack had already told her attorneys about the alleged abuse and did not want to be in contact with Hall.
“Ask her why I am blocked,” one of Hall’s texts read.
Mack was 18 and pregnant when she went on vacation to Bali with her mother, Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese-Mack, in August 2014. Ten days into the trip, she used her mother’s credit card to buy her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, a $12,000 plane ticket to the island.
Within hours of his arrival at the St. Regis resort, von Wiese-Mack was dead — bludgeoned by Schaefer with a metal fruit bowl as Mack watched. The couple stuffed the body into a suitcase, loaded it into the trunk of a taxi and fled the scene. When the cab driver noticed the bag was leaking blood, he alerted police. Mack and Schaefer were arrested at a budget hotel the following morning.
Schaefer was found guilty of first-degree murder and is now ten years into his 18-year sentence at Bali’s notorious Kerobokan Prison.
Mack was dealt a 10-year sentence for her role but released in November 2021 after serving seven years. She was deported to her hometown of Chicago with her daughter Stella, now 10, who was born in a Bali prison.
Upon arriving at O’Hare Airport, Mack was arrested and detained at the MCC. In June 2023, Mack pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill and was eventually sentenced to 26 years in prison.
The 2014 killing of Sheila von Wiese transfixed the world when it emerged that she was the widow of the famed musician and educator James L. Mack. He was a regular conductor for the Chicago Sympathy Orchestra and an in-demand arranger and composer who worked with the legendary musician Ramsay Lewis and singer Nancy Wilson.
His daughter was raised in a $1.5 mansion in Chicago’s affluent Oak Park where her mother Sheila, a political-science graduate, staged Paris-style salons for literary events and chamber music concerts.
Mack was set to be the beneficiary of a $1.6 million trust from her mother.
Andrea Dixon is writing “American Matricide — the Heather Mack Story.”
ondz@ymail.com
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